2023-05-18 14:56:00
New research warns that the weight of skyscrapers in NY sink into surrounding bodies of water.
According to the geological study, the city is getting closer to the water at a rate of 1 to 2 millimeters per year, and in some areas it is sinking much faster.
According to Tom Parsons of the United States Geological Survey and principal investigator of the study, this makes the Big Apple more vulnerable to natural disasters.
The risk is higher in lower manhattan and the situation in Brooklyn and Queens is also causing concern.
“NY faces significant challenges from the danger of flooding; the threat of sea level rise is 3 to 4 times greater than the global average along the Atlantic coast of North America… A highly concentrated population of 8.4 million people faces varying degrees of danger from flooding in the city of NYhe and his team wrote in the new report.
As published by the New York Post, the city has already seen these effects for more than a decade.
In 2012 Hurricane Sandy forced seawater into the city and rains from Hurricane Ida in 2021 overwhelmed drainage systems.
“The combination of tectonic and anthropogenic subsidence, sea level rise, and increased hurricane intensity imply an accelerating problem along coastal and riparian areas,” he wrote.
“Repeated exposure of building foundations to salt water can corrode reinforcing steel and chemically weaken concrete, leading to structural weakening.”
Also the threat of storms is more likely, according to the researcher.
Greenhouse gases “appear to be reducing the natural wind shear barrier along the US East Coast, which will allow for more frequent high-intensity hurricane events in the coming decades.”
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